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Pam Spaulding
@pamspaulding.bsky.social
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Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.

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🚨 Author Michael Wolff on (former Prince) Andrew, & Donald Trump's role on Epstein's #PussyCommittee...

Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DNBEg_g...

And...

🧾 DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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No surprise from the pedophile-protecting Mike Johnson.

Covering up crimes of child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, #PussyCommittee member Trump, & all the Elite Predators are more important than the People's Business.

#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
📺 is.gd/LeJRWA
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The chutzpah of the pedophile-protector FELON crapping on air traffic controllers.

Decomposing Dictator Trump was literally sleeping on the job!

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Trump asleep. Andrew Harnik of Getty.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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📣 16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave: Another disgrace, and a new path forward
By @brianbeutler.bsky.social

"There are 47 Senate Democrats. Replacing Chuck Schumer as minority leader and Dick Durbin as whip would require just 24 votes."
🧾 www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus. Someone should step up, and 23 more should be willing to support a leadership challenge. If that doesn’t happen, the bar for supporting a primary challenge against every Senate Democrat should fall. https://www.offmessage.net/p/16-thoughts-on-the-dem-shutdown-cave?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1172514&post_id=178460994&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=eefq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud. https://www.offmessage.net/p/16-thoughts-on-the-dem-shutdown-cave?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1172514&post_id=178460994&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=eefq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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🚨 From the Trump regime's *own website*, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (headed up by Dr. Oz), the ACA is essential for people w/pre-existing conditions to afford health care, noting it affects 129M people.

How long before this page is disappeared?
🧾 www.cms.gov/cciio/resour...
At Risk: Pre-Existing Conditions Could Affect 1 in 2 Americans: 129 Million People Could Be Denied Affordable Coverage Without Health Reform Introduction According to a new analysis by the Department of Health and Human Services, 50 to 129 million (19 to 50 percent of) non-elderly Americans have some type of pre-existing health condition. Up to one in five non-elderly Americans with a pre-existing condition – 25 million individuals – is uninsured. Under the Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014, these Americans cannot be denied coverage, be charged significantly higher premiums, be subjected to an extended waiting period, or have their benefits curtailed by insurance companies. https://www.cms.gov/cciio/resources/forms-reports-and-other-resources/preexisting#:~:text=As%20many%20as%2082%20million,%2C%20asthma%2C%20or%20heart%20disease As many as 82 million Americans with employer-based coverage have a pre-existing condition, ranging from life-threatening illnesses like cancer to chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, or heart disease. Without the Affordable Care Act, such conditions limit the ability to obtain affordable health insurance if they become self-employed, take a job with a company that does not offer coverage, or experience a change in life circumstance, such as divorce, retirement, or moving to a different state. Older Americans between ages 55 and 64 are at particular risk: 48 to 86 percent of people in that age bracket have some type of pre-existing condition. And 15 to 30 percent of people in perfectly good health today are likely to develop a pre-existing condition over the next eight years, severely limiting their choices without the protections of the Affordable Care Act. https://www.cms.gov/cciio/resources/forms-reports-and-other-resources/preexisting
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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He is getting *very nervous* about the SCOTUS decision on tariffs...
So, let’s get this straight??? The President of the United States is allowed (and fully approved by Congress!) to stop ALL TRADE with a Foreign Country (Which is far more onerous than a Tariff!), and LICENSE a Foreign Country, but is not allowed to put a simple Tariff on a Foreign Country, even for purposes of NATIONAL SECURITY. That is NOT what our great Founders had in mind! The whole thing is ridiculous! Other Countries can Tariff us, but we can’t Tariff them??? It is their DREAM!!! Businesses are pouring into the USA ONLY BECAUSE OF TARIFFS. HAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NOT BEEN TOLD THIS??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???President DJT https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115519951705472870
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🤣 The Decomposing Dictator blindsides his own people AGAIN.

So if these tariffs pay for this $2,000 "dividend" & SCOTUS shoots down his tariffs that must be paid back, where does the 💰 come from?

Scott Bessent is left holding the bag since Trump didn't speak to him about it. 🤡😆
🧾 is.gd/LBVX3p
Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people' The president says the country is now wealthy because of his tariff policies. ByIsabella Murray November 9, 2025, 1:38 PM https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-hell-issue-2000-tariff-dividend-except-high/story?id=127356839#webview=1 "The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George," Bessent told anchor George Stephanopoulos. "You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president's agenda -- you know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans."
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Decomposing dictator is panicking bc Ds are holding firm (listening, wafflers?), re: the shutdown — & woes that *Trump himself blamed on Rs*.

The projection is strong w/this one as Trump accuses Ds of cheating — after Drowsy Don dialed up Gov. Greg Abbott & told him to find 5 seats for Rs in TX. 🤯
How easy should VOTER I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!) be to get from the Radical Left Democrats??? There should be nothing easier, right??? Well, out of 47 Dems, we don’t have even ONE VOTE from them. That is for one reason, and one reason only — THEY WANT TO CHEAT!!! THEY ARE A BUNCH OF SCOUNDRELS, CHEATERS, & PSYCHOPATHS. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. APPROVE VOTER I.D. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115521239983259817
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Trump lies again (geez, & managed to bamboozle enough voters on cost issues) & Bessent hopes folks don't remember the Decomposing Dictator's promises to lower electricity prices.

🧾 www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/b...

📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump vowed to halve electricity prices. But they’re rising twice as fast as inflation Sep 4, 2025 CNN New York By Matt Egan
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Comer's assessment of Decomposing Dictator's cognitive functioning should alarm everyone. So it's acceptable that a POTUS is unaware of who he's pardoning?

Or sleeping on the job...a cruel, sad (but still dangerous) figure that needs to be in a care facility.

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Trump coming full circle mocking a disabled reporter and looking like he needs to go to the rest home.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
🚨 Finally. The WaPo does an in-depth analysis of Decomposing Dictator's inability to stay awake at that Oval Office meeting. Pics & vid.

Watch the WH go ape sh*t after issuing a denial that Grandpa Chaos drooped over & passed out.

Sunday shows better cover this.
#25thA47

🧾 is.gd/nk08nU
A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event. November 8, 2025 at 12:25 p.m. ESTToday at 12:25 p.m. EST President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday during an announcement event with pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) By Dan Diamond and JM Rieger https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/08/trump-sleeping-oval-office/ The White House denied that Trump was dozing during the Oval Office event and suggested the question was inappropriate. “The President was not sleeping; in fact, he spoke throughout and took many questions from the press during this announcement which represents a historic reduction in prices for Americans on two drugs that help Americans struggling with diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and other conditions,” spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/08/trump-sleeping-oval-office/
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
📣 Well, Decomposing Dictator throws another wrench into the works. I'm sure Sen. Thune has agita.

Trump's realized:
1. Fixing the ACA involves *hard work & compromise*.
2. The Rs have no replacement for it.

His new plan?
3. F*ck it, just cut Americans a check & let them navigate Big Healthcare.
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster! https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115514453574326959
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Karma. From mocking a reporter w/a disability to drooling, snoozing...he's ready for the care facility.

No way this dangerous, mentally & physically deteriorating, empathy-free, pedophile-protecting FELON should be POTUS.

Looks like we the people will have to eject the Decomposing Dictator.
Trump coming full circle mocking a disabled reporter and looking like he needs to go to the rest home.
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The order issued Friday night by SCOTUS (Ketanji Brown Jackson), for a 48-hour hold on paying SNAP benefits to Americans experiencing food insecurity because of the Trump regime.

⚖️ www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Supreme Court of the United States No. 25A539 BROOKE L. ROLLINS, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ET AL., Applicants, v. RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, ET AL. O R D E R The applicants are seeking a stay of two orders of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, case No. 1:25-cv-569. See D. Ct. Minute Entry (Oct. 31, 2025) and Docket Number 34 (Nov. 6, 2025). These orders require the applicants to fully fund benefits for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (“SNAP”) for the month of November, and to distribute that funding by the end of the day on November 7, 2025 (today). Earlier today, the applicants asked the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to stay the District Court’s orders pending appeal, and to issue an administrative stay to facilitate its consideration of that stay motion. At 6:08 p.m., the First Circuit denied the applicants’ request for an administrative stay, but stated that it “intend[s] to issue a decision on [the https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110725zr_pnk0.pdf stay pending appeal] motion as quickly as possible.” Rhode Island State Council of Churches v. Rollins, No. 25-2089 (CA1 Nov. 7, 2025). The applicants filed an application in this Court this evening, requesting a stay of the two District Court orders “pending the disposition of the government’s appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and, if the court of appeals affirms those orders, pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court.” Application at 1. The applicants assert that, without intervention from this Court, they will have to “transfer an estimated $4 billion by tonight” to fund SNAP benefits through November. Ibid. Given the First Circuit’s representations, an administrative stay is required to facilitate the First Circuit’s expeditious resolution of the pending stay motion. IT IS ORDERED that the District Court’s orders are hereby administratively stayed pending disposition of the motion for a stay pending appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in case No. 25-2089 or further order of the undersigned or of the Court. This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit’s resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch. /s/ Ketanji Brown Jackson___ Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/110725zr_pnk0.pdf
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Throwdown! Federal judge Karin J. Immergut (a Trump nominee) issued a permanent block on troop deployments to Portland in response to anti-ICE peaceful protests. 👍🏻

🧾 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters were hampering President Trump’s policies. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/portland-oregon-national-guard.html Judge Karin J. Immergut of U.S. District Court, who was nominated to the bench by Mr. Trump, had previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking the president’s order federalizing National Guard soldiers in Oregon in a lawsuit that was brought by the States of Oregon and California and the City of Portland. In her final 106-page ruling, Judge Immergut rejected arguments from government lawyers that protests at the ICE building made it impossible for federal officers to carry out immigration enforcement, represented a rebellion or raised the threat of rebellion. She also found that the attempt to use National Guard soldiers in Oregon had violated the U.S. Constitution’s 10th Amendment, which gives states any powers not expressly assigned to the federal government. “The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president’s authority,” she wrote. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/portland-oregon-national-guard.html
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Here's the regime's emergency appeal to SCOTUS to stop SNAP funds from being distributed to the needy:

⚖️: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
In the Supreme Court of the United States ─────────── No. 25A_______ BROOKE ROLLINS, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ET AL., APPLICANTS v. RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, ET AL. ─────────── APPLICATION TO STAY THE ORDERS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND AND REQUEST FOR AN IMMEDIATE ADMINSITRATIVE STAY ─────────── Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of this Court and the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. 1651, the Solicitor General, on behalf of Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, et al., respectfully files this application to stay the orders issued by the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (App., infra, 1a-34a), pending the dis- position of the government’s appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and, if the court of appeals affirms those orders, pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court. Given the imminent, irreparable harms posed by these orders, which require the government to transfer an estimated $4 billion by tonight, the Solicitor General respectfully requests an im- mediate administrative stay of the orders pending the resolution of this application by no later than 9:30pm this evening. Congress has failed to appropriate funds to pay for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for this fiscal year. The Executive Branch has https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A539/383956/20251107181404505_RI%20Council%20-%20Emergency%20Application.pdf
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Speaking of election night lunacy, freed jailbird, scam artist, & compulsive liar George Santos still says he's leaving New York after Tuesday's results...let's see if he actually does it.

Maybe Kentucky will welcome him with open arms.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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📣 *THIS IS REAL*. 😆 I provided links in ALT text (at the dark side).

Remember, our Decomposing Dictator *loves the poorly educated*. 💯

But MAGAts in Kentucky desperate to vote against Mamdani (or VA races) on Tues is next-level dumb. 🤯

(@jvl.bsky.social @thebulwark.com, I hope you saw this. 🥳)
Trump Tracker: Oh my fucking god. MAGAs in Kentucky were showing up to their polling stations to vote against Zohran Mamdani. Kentucky ranks 48th in education by the way. https://x.com/trackingdonald/status/1986133548558868644?t=NyOwDuIqMPJUCsNTe0yPOA&s=19 Michael Adams Kentucky Secretary of State: We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry. https://x.com/KYSecState/status/1985734353515671601?t=Kpb4JEQZrCbNxhynVCqUJw&s=19
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
"Before Thursday’s ruling limiting the feds’ use of force, the Homeland Security sec encouraged the Border Patrol chief to go hard at protesters opposing Chicago’s deportation blitz."

🧾 Transcript: How Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino defend effort to ‘hammer’ protesters
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
KRISTI NOEM: Today, when we leave here, we’re going to go hard. We’re going to hammer these guys who are advocating for violence against the American people. What they are doing is advocating to harm not just you and your colleagues, but your families and they’re doxxing your identities and victimizing people every day by the way that they are talking, speaking, who they are affiliated with, who they’re funded with and what they’re talking about as far as consequences for what we’re doing by protecting this country. So, we’re going to go out there and make sure there are consequences for the way that they are behaving. And we’re going to prosecute them. We’re going to bring them to justice. We’re not taking this anymore, alright? The president is sick of it. I’m sick of it. And we’re going to give you guys all the authority that you need to go out there and arrest these individuals who are advocating for violence against you. Does that sound alright? https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/11/06/homeland-security-border-patrol-blitz-kristi-noem-gregory-bovino-deportation-immigration-blitz-sara-ellis LOCKE BOWMAN: Have you communicated to the officers under your command that part of their responsibilities — not every one, but part of their responsibilities — is to hammer guys who are advocating for violence against the American people? GREGORY BOVINO: I have instructed my officers that when threats are made — which is advocacy of violence, threats against law enforcement officers are made — that they are, that is arrestable. BOWMAN: Okay, have you instructed your officers that they should go hard against people for the way that they’re talking, speaking, who they’re affiliated with, and who they’re funded with? BOVINO: I’ve told my officers to go hard against people that are advocating threats, violence, death, against those in the form of threats. Ellis, the judge, decided Bovino and his agents had gone overboard. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/11/06/homeland-security-border-patrol-blitz-kristi-noem-gregory-bovino-deportation-immigration-blitz-sara-ellis
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Pope Leo=on point.
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "...The best way to avoid an American version of “eat the rich” is to fix the current “let them eat cake” distortion of capitalism into which we’ve fallen. One person who doesn’t begin to understand this is Elon..."
🧾 @thebulwark.com: is.gd/vvU768
His solution to income inequality, he said yesterday, was for people to buy humanoid robots—specifically the one he’s developing. “People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care. Well, there’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot,” he proclaimed, according to the New York Times. How convenient. One man who does seem to grasp the character of the current moment is Pope Leo XIV. In an interview in September, Pope Leo cited Elon Musk’s pay package in the course of arguing that “we’re in big trouble” when it comes to the “continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working class and the money that the wealthiest receive.” More recently, he commented on “the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.” We might take guidance from the first American pope. https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/let-them-eat-ai-generated-cake-elon-musk-trillionaire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n6ti
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
If author Michael Wolff (who has 100+ hours of interviews w/#Epstein), saw pics of Trump w/half-naked underaged girls — & the DOJ told Rs there's something *worse* in the files — that's why that 218th sig on the discharge petition will open the R floodgates calling to #ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles.
The Trump administration has failed at every turn to mitigate anxieties about the president’s longtime friendship with the child sex criminal. The typically bombastic Attorney General Pam Bondi was silent when asked about the photos during a Senate hearing last month, a choice that further “spooked” several GOP lawmakers, with many interpreting her nonresponse as a very vocal “yes.” https://newrepublic.com/post/202813/department-justice-admits-republicans-epstein-files-worse-donald-trump
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Definitely undefeated.

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"SOMEONE FAINTS BUT DONNIE IS THINKING, I'M TALL, VERY HOT. I'M DOWN TO FOUR DIAPERS PER DAY. I SELL BIBLES. HAVE A FREE JET. I DEFEATED MAGNETS. I END UP WORE EVERY MORNING. I THROW THE BEST GATSBY PARTIES. AND THEN THE UTI IN MY NECK IS ALL GONE. WHY DO PEOPLE STILL LOVE GAVIN MORE?!
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Wait, Fuentes makes it clear in this vid he is a big fan of Hitler...

"'Hitler was a pedophile and kind of a pagan.' It's like, well, he was also really fucking cool. ... This guy's awesome, this guy's cool."

So why would he be concerned about being called a Nazi?

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November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Andrew is in deep. He surely knows enough about #Epstein to get the WH nervous.

The rape, abuse, & trafficking of minors & vulnerable young women for depraved elites like the former prince must not get lost in the WH scandals:

60 Minutes Australia's full playlist:
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November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
pamspaulding.bsky.social
Trump is just standing there, frozen.
Howard Lutnick, President Trump, and others look on after a person collapsed during an event about drug prices, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM